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This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect …
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both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than others …
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We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
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